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Conrad Michael Richter (October 13, 1890 – October 30, 1968) was an American novelist whose lyrical work is concerned largely with life on the American frontier in various periods. His novel The Town (1950), the last story of his trilogy The Awakening Land about the Ohio frontier, won the 1951 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction . [1]
Conrad Michael Richter (October 13, 1890 – October 30, 1968) was an American novelist whose lyrical work is concerned largely with life on the American frontier in various periods. His novel The Town (1950), the last story of his trilogy The Awakening Land about the Ohio frontier, won the 1951 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. [1]
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Conrad Michael Richter (born Oct. 13, 1890, Pine Grove, Pa., U.S.—died Oct. 30, 1968, Pottsville, Pa.) was an American short-story writer and novelist known for his lyrical fiction about early America. As a young man, Richter did odd jobs and at age 19 became the editor of the Patton (Pennsylvania) Courier.
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Complete order of Conrad Richter books in Publication Order and Chronological Order.
The Awakening Land trilogy by Conrad Richter is a series of three novels that explore the lives of a white American frontier family in the Ohio Valley from the late 18th century to the middle of the 19th.
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Conrad Richter has 55 books on Goodreads with 52555 ratings. Conrad Richter’s most popular book is The Light in the Forest.
In his lifetime, Conrad Richter authored some of the most accurate depictions of Frontier America in print. His novels combine folklore, fiction, and true accounts of the frontier in tales that stretch over several generations of settlers.
